Straight answers, no jargon
Guides: Solar PPAs, Costs, Grid Connection and Compliance
Five plain guides for businesses, farms and charities weighing up fully funded solar. Each one explains its hard words as it goes, and none of them need you to know what a PPA is first.
Start here
Five guides, in the order most people need them
Never heard of a power purchase agreement (PPA)? Start with the first. Got a specific worry? Pick that one. Rather ask a question straight out? Try our FAQs.
What is a solar PPA?
The deal in plain words: who pays for the panels, what you pay for the power, how the funder makes its money and what happens at year 15.
Read the PPA guide
How much do commercial solar panels cost?
What it takes to buy a system outright, what a PPA costs instead, and where buying is the better deal.
Read the cost guide
Three-phase, the DNO and your grid connection
Why a three-phase supply matters, what the grid operator checks, how long it takes and who pays for the application.
Read the grid guide
MEES 2031: EPC B and commercial solar
What the government has confirmed for larger rented commercial buildings, and how solar lifts an EPC rating.
Read the EPC guide
Half-hourly data and system sizing
Why we ask for 12 months of meter readings, and how they stop you paying for power you cannot use.
Read the data guideThe short answers
The numbers the guides keep coming back to
The same four figures run through every guide. They are today's terms (September 2026), and your proposal works out your own.
After the guides
Ready to see it for your own site?
Reading is a good start. These are the next steps, from lowest effort to a conversation.
The solar PPA overview
The whole offer on one page, from who it suits to what happens at year 15.
Solar PPACheck what your site needs
Three-phase, 20 kW of space, 12 months of data, no existing solar and the owner's agreement if you rent.
Do you qualify?Where we work
Guides written for the UK, with North Wales in mind
Based in Colwyn Bay, working across North Wales and the borders. See our case studies or meet Dave.
Rather just talk it through?
Send your postcode and a recent bill, or ask Dave to call you. He calls back within 24 hours, and a written proposal follows in up to 5 working days.